Month: October 2016

LIFE OF ORPHEUS Carl Grafe Orpheus. They call me Orpheus. The asteroid had felt the weight of the shuttle displacing its particles, the slight increase in mass subtly changing its gravity. It had felt the … [continue]

It was the Thursday night after carnival, the Maroon Bird overnight run from Salvador, Bahia, straight on to Paraíso in the state of Tocantins, and most of the passengers in the queue at the door … [continue]

CYCLES WITHIN CYCLES Darrel Duckworth The End had come. The universe was dead. No more galaxies shining in the darkness. No walls of stars or glowing nebulae. The stars, long cold, had been swallowed and … [continue]

NEW APPLIANCES Brandon McNulty Seven A.M. brought sunshine and the usual droning from beside the couple’s bed. A young boy named Alarm sat atop the nightstand, blinking wildly and functioning in the only way he … [continue]

BLOOD ON THE MARBLE Konstantine Paradias “Live, from Tenochtitlan, it’s the Ullamaliztli world series finals!” “Yes, Tototl and it’s already shaping up to be a great one! Hi, I am Patli of Cotyolapan.” “And I … [continue]

There is a popular and growing disdain for the concept of an afterlife today. Among agnostics and atheists, it is seen as pure wishful thinking, lampooned as “pie in the sky when you die,” a … [continue]

ANACYCLOSIS Brian Niemeier Kob Agur strained to see behind the red circle that gamboled upon his screen’s starry backdrop, but distance obscured his target. He eased his magnaframe forward with the left control stick and … [continue]